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Swedens knowledge school
According to The Guardian, politicians in England are wondering why Sweden tops international education league tables and are looking to learn from it. Students at Kunskapsskolan Nacka, a school in a suburb of Stockholm, have mobile phones on the table and iPods plugged into their ears - no timetable, no set lessons and little sense of a traditional classroom. But beneath the apparent chaos is a highly structured plan.
At the Kunskapsskolan, or knowledge school, each child has a weekly target in every subject, failing which makes him/her answerable to their personal tutor at their weekly meeting. The child will also have to answer to his/her parents, who can follow their progress online. Students at the school have predetermined targets, but complete freedom in deciding how to get there. Its more like a university than a school.
Anders Hultins, co-founder of the chain of 30 Kunskapsskolan schools, said: We are popular in Sweden as an alternative to the teacher-led factory model of education. When you see a normal school you will find classrooms ofequal sizes and a bell ringing; there is factory thinking behind that. What students do in Kunskapsskolan isdecide for themselves, for their own needs rather than for collective needs. There are no bells in our schools or aschedule that you repeat every week. Kunskapsskolan is the largest chain of independent or free schools in Sweden, which make up 10% of schools. They are state-funded, but not state-controlled, /and free for students.
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